Opening Words

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As Harry Potter novelist JK Rowling was born 31 July 1965 today’s question are on books and first lines.

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Mr. and Mrs. …, of number four, … Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

What surname and street name are missing from this opening line?

Physicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own.

The above quote is the first line of what Dan Brown novel?

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

The above quote opens a book written in the UK in 1928 but not published openly in that country until 1960. What book?

The … were over.

What flower completes this quote from the opening of Richard Adams’ novel, Watership Down?

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

This is the first line of what novel and who wrote it?

Good luck! I will post the answers later today.